Sunday, August 18, 2013

New IPCC Report: Climatologists More Certain Global Warming Is Caused by Humans, Impacts Are Speeding Up

Temperature change over past 11,300 years (in blue, via Science, 2013) plus projected warming over the next century on humanity’s current emissions path (in red, via recent literature, much of which is reviewed in the new IPCC report.)
The Fifth — and hopefully final — Assessment Report (AR5) from the UN Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) is due next month.  The leaks are already here:
Drafts seen by Reuters of the study by the UN panel of experts, due to be published next month, say it is at least 95 percent likely that human activities – chiefly the burning of fossil fuels – are the main cause of warming since the 1950s.

New IPCC Report: Climatologists More Certain Global Warming Is Caused by Humans, Impacts Are Speeding Up
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